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Crow and Tamping-Bars. No, 138,599 V Patented May 6,1873.

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ALLEN WEIGHT AND ALVIN F. TEW, OF WESTFIELD, NEW YORK.

IMPROVEMENT IN C ROW AND TAMPING BARS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 138,599, dated May 6, 1873; application filed November 16, 1872.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, ALLEN WRIGHT and ALVIN F. TEW, of Westfield, in the county of Chautauqua and State of New York, have invented a new and Improved Crow and Tamprally required for the greatest convenience without being too heavy, which they would if made solid and as large as required.

Figure 1 is a sectional elevation of the handle part of a bar with a tamping attachment. Fig. 2 is a side elevation of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a side elevation of a crow-bar attachment, and Fig. 4 is a side elevation of a claw-barattach ment.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

A is the tubular handle part. B is the tamping attachment. 0 is a crow-bar attachment; and D is a claw attachment, any one of which may be used with the handle, being provided with a screw-shank, E, for screwing into the end of the handle. A head, F, is fastened on the upper end of the handle to fill up the hole, also for the ordinary purposes of the head of a bar. It may be permanently attached as here shown or it may screw on detachably if preferred.

Having thus described our invention, we claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent, as a new article of manufacture- A crow, claw, or tamping bar, with a tubular handle, A, the two being detachably connected together, substantially as specified.

ALLEN WRIGHT. ALVIN F. TEW.

Witnesses:

EPHRAIM HEWITT, R. G. WRIGHT. 

